Peter Derrick James Stuart (born 1963) is a British-born Anglican bishop in the

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. He has served as the bishop of the

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since 2 February 2018. He previously served as an assistant bishop in the diocese from 2009 to 2018. Following the retirement of Brian Farran on 15 December 2012, until the installation Bishop Greg Thompson on 2 February 2014, Stuart administered the diocese. He resumed administration of the diocese on 1 December 2016 prior to Thompson's resignation as bishop on 31 May 2017 due to bullying. He was elected as the Bishop of Newcastle by the diocesan synod on 25 November 2017 and was installed on 2 February 2018. Stuart was born in England in 1963, emigrating to Australia in 1971. He is a graduate of the University of Tasmania, the Melbourne College of Divinity (entering Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne in 1987), the University of Technology in Sydney and Flinders University. He was ordained deacon in 1989 and priest in 1990 in the Diocese of Tasmania. He served as principal of

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from 2002 to 2009. He was consecrated as a bishop on 2 February 2009 by Archbishop Peter Jensen at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stuart, Peter 1963 births People educated at Trinity College (University of Melbourne) 21st-century Anglican bishops in Australia Living people Anglican bishops of Newcastle (Australia) Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle (Australia)